Abstract

In order to improve the accuracy and stability of stereo vision calibration, a novel stereo vision calibration approach based on the group method of data handling (GMDH) neural network is presented. Three GMDH neural networks are utilized to build a spatial mapping relationship adaptively in individual dimension. In the process of modeling, the Levenberg–Marquardt optimization algorithm is introduced as an interior criterion to train each partial model, and the corrected Akaike’s information criterion is introduced as an exterior criterion to evaluate these models. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed approach is stable and able to calibrate three-dimensional (3D) locations more accurately and learn the stereo mapping models adaptively. It is a convenient way to calibrate the stereo vision without specialized knowledge of stereo vision.